“Could there be anything worse?” queries a chopped-and-screwed vocal sample at the beginning of “Anything Worse,” a track from the new e.p. from My Troubled Mind SoCal beat murderer the Gaslamp Killer out next week; in fact, could there be anything better? Gaslamp Killer is the nom de psych of William Benjamin Bensussen, a Los Angeles-by-way-of-San Diego native who’s blown up via his sets at the likes of L.A.’s premier showcase for deconstructed grooves, Low End Theory, making friends with the likes of Flying Lotus (who’s putting out My Troubled Mind on his Brainfeeder label).

Tastemakers have taken note: influential BBC DJ Mary Anne Hobbs opened her most recent show with “Intro B” (another track off My Troubled Mind), while mighty Pitchfork called “Anything Worse” “a cut of evil,outer space funk that makes the dude’s moniker sound completely appropriate“.

It’s an appropriate description for Gaslamp’s freaky-deak sounds, which merge deliriously funked-out breakbeats with horror-show dubstep synths and off-kilter jazzbo moves, lurching and veering where few dancefloor tracks have gone before. It’s an addictively disturbing sonic stew, but be warned: it just might kill you…